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Our cover star this month is Daniel Storey – now plying his trade as The Knights of Stanley. Daniel’s original style of heart-felt songs are delivered with an intense honesty. A particular favourite of ours is Melancholic Molly. Daniel is in the process of recording his first EP so the best place to listen to him is live – you can catch him at The Greyhound, Botesdale on 22nd January and at PJ McGinty’s on 30th January.

THE FOSTER FACTOR • 4

Foz gets ready to party in the company of Soul Kitchen

STAGESTRUCK • 8

Steve Hawthorne reveals the highlights of his theatrical year

THE FAIRS ARCHIVE • 11

A plea for memories of the Albion Fairs

BBC INTRODUCING • 12

Graeme Mac on the man now known as Oktoba

GIG PICS: PART 1 • 15

A selection of Tony Bell’s gig photos from 2015

FOZ’S PICKS OF 2015 • 16

Stephen Foster’s favourite concerts of the past twelve months

GIG PICS: PART 2 • 18

More of Tony Bell’s gig photos from 2015

CLASSICAL GAS • 20

David Butcher hoping to hear more classical music on his local radio station

MUSIC TO YOUR EARS • 24

Grapevine recommends new CDs by Benjamin Bloom, Jazz At The Movies and Paddy Stratton

GRAPEVINE QUIZ • 25

A golden opportunity to win the album of your choice

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Roger Haywood on why East Anglia

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Cambridge e Arts Theatre e Cinderella e On til 17th Cambridge e Corn Exchange e Horrible Christmas e On til 9th Peterborough e Key Theatre e Aladdin e On til 3rd

Friday 1st in Essex

Chelmsford e Civic Theatre e Aladdin e On til 3rd Clacton-On-Sea e Princes Theatre e Aladdin e On til 3rd Clacton-On-Sea e West Cliff Theatre e Cinderella e On til 3rd Southend e Cliffs Pavilion Theatre e Cinderella e On til 10th

Friday 1st in Norfolk

Hunstanton e Princess Theatre e Aladdin Norwich e Brickmakers e Games Night Norwich e Puppet Theatre e Rumpelstiltskin e On til 3rd Norwich e Theatre Royal e Snow White e On til 17th Sheringham e Little Theatre e Cinderella e On til 2nd

Friday 1st in Suffolk

Ipswich e Sir John Mills Theatre e Holy Mackerel e On til 6th Ipswich e The Ipswich Regent e Aladdin e On til 3rd Lowestoft e Marina Theatre e Sleeping Beauty e On til 2nd Sudbury e Quay Theatre e The Snow Queen e On til 3rd Stoke by Nayland e Fleece Jazz e Horn Factory e £15 Ipswich e The County of Suffolk e Harmonix Karaoke

Saturday 2nd in Cambridgeshire

Peterborough e Brewery Tap e Saturday Night Groove

Saturday 2nd in Essex

Colchester e Mercury Theatre e Aladdin e On til 10th

Saturday 2nd in Norfolk

Great Yarmouth e St George’s Theatre e Cinderella e On til 10th Kings Lynn e Corn Exchange e Robin Hood e On til 3rd Norwich e Brickmakers e Umgawa Kagooga Norwich e Gate House e Vic Salter Norwich e Maddermarket e The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe Norwich e Puppet Theatre e Perfect Pets e £8.50 Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e Power House

Saturday 2nd in Suffolk

Bungay e Fisher Theatre e The Wizard of Oz Bury e The Apex e Joseph & The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat Bury e Theatre Royal e Jack And The Beanstalk e On til 10th Halesworth e NewCut e Blacksmith Who Chased The Moon Ipswich e Black Horse e Rockface Ipswich e Gardeners Arms e Born Jovi UK Ipswich e New Wolsey Theatre e The Sword in the Stone e Til 30th Ipswich e Pump & Grind e Egyptian Blue + support Ipswich e Selkirk Inn e Andre Smith Ipswich e The Mulberry Tree e B4 Stowmarket e Pickerel e The Collectors Sudbury e Bay Horse e Space Rocks Sudbury e Prince of Wales e Robbie Gladwell & His Band

Sunday 3rd in Cambridgeshire

Peterborough e Charters e Agi Jarocka

Sunday 3rd in Essex

Marks Tey e Colchester Jazz e The Golden Eagle Jazz Band

Sunday 3rd in Norfolk

Norwich e Brickmakers e Lee Vasey Big Band

Sunday 3rd in Suffolk

Halesworth e NewCut e Blacksmith Who Chased The Moon Ipswich e Isaacs e Connor Ryan Adams Ipswich e Suffolk Punch e Andrew Spall Solo vocalist Ipswich e The Mulberry Tree e Mulberry Folk Session Lowestoft e Milestones Jazz e The Tom Clay-Harris Quartet Lowestoft e Seagull Theatre e Karaoke Stowmarket e The Mill Bar & Grill e Apryl’s Kiss Karaoke Sudbury e Bay Horse e The Wully Bully Soul Band

Monday 4th in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Arts Theatre e Cinderella e On til 17th

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Follow us on Twitter: @grapevinelive Stephen Foster is BBC Radio Suffolk’s longest serving presenter. Foz presents Drivetime and features an eclectic selection of music with much of it coming from local bands and singer-songwriters. @StephenFoz

In his first ramblings of 2016, Foz previews a big bash by Soul Kitchen, brings us news of a line-up change in the Back Porch ranks and praises the efforts of The Shaboogamoo Shufflers.

Just when you thought the party season was over along comes East Anglia’s premier party band making a rare public appearance. Soul Kitchen are legends in their own lunchtimes but most of their performances are at private functions, many of them big corporate affairs. Of course, regulars to Ipswich Music Day down the years will be familiar with their wonderful take on soul and ska. I’ve now lost count of the number of times I’ve introduced them on the BBC Radio Suffolk stage but there’s no doubt that every single time they’ve played on Christchurch Park thousands of people have been bopping away to their good time music.

In fact, it won’t be the first time some of the guys have played there. Just before Christmas lead singer Mike Rushmore and the band’s rhythm section opened for the Feelgoods treating us all to the bluesier side of Soul Kitchen. There was a small serving of the madness associated with Ed Chef and his crew but normal service will be resumed on Friday, January 15 when a full portion of funky mayhem will be dished up. Tickets are available in advance from the venue at £10 each. On the night they’ll cost you £12. Doors open at 8pm with the boys’ sensational show commencing at 9pm.

When he isn’t orchestrating a night’s worth of lunacy with Soul This month Soul Kitchen, Mike Kitchen have Rushmore is often lined up a gig out and about with Mike Rushmo of their own at re Suffolk’s premier Venue 77, the fine acoustic blues band function room at the back of Back Porch. The The Gardeners Arms. It’s a place I’ve got group have had to know very well over the past few months a change in personnel following Tony having promoted three shows there at Lewis’s recent move back to his native the back end of 2015 – Dr Feelgood, Nine Wales. In comes former Mean Red Spiders Below Zero and Band Of Friends. It really is guitarist Toni Vines and a few weeks ago an ideal place for Soul Kitchen to perform. he made an early appearance with his There’s a decent size stage and a big area new bandmates at The Dove Street Inn in for dancing. Ipswich.

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Shaboogamoo Shufflers It was great to see ex-members Steve A torrential downpour just before they were Graham and Simon ‘Zippy’ Nicholson make due to start meant they had to vacate the guest appearances and I also spotted marquee area at the back of the pub and original drummer Steve Kerridge in the move indoors. It takes a great deal more audience. The last line-up of Phil Double, than bad weather to dampen the spirits Darren Elden, Tim Le Grice, John Butters, of Back Porch and their followers. Thinking Adam Whyatt and Toni about it, only a bar Vines were all at their running dry would have It takes a great deal very best for two sets any serious impact! As of rocking rhythm and I knew he would, Toni more than bad weather blues. I feel sure The Vines has slotted in very to dampen the spirits Shufflers will reconvene well indeed and over in 2017. Whether they the coming months I of Back Porch and their do or don’t they can have no doubt he will followers. be proud of their make a big difference efforts and certainly to the group’s sound. deserve to put their feet up for at least a year. That said, most The times are certainly changing on the of them are in other bands locally so they local blues scene with The Shaboogamoo won’t be idle! Shufflers deciding to take a year out. It’ll be strange to look through the Grapevine I dare say there’ll be plenty of other listings during 2016 and not see their comings and goings on the local music name. The Shufflers have made a huge scene during the next 12 months. contribution to the local music scene and bowed out in fine style early last month with Meanwhile, best wishes for 2016 and, as a great Sunday teatime gig at The Mulberry my much missed old friend Alan Crumpton used to say, whatever your taste in music Tree in Ipswich. do keep it live.

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Monday 4th in Essex

Colchester e Mercury Theatre e Aladdin e On til 10th Southend e Cliffs Pavilion Theatre e Cinderella e On til 10th

Monday 4th in Norfolk

Norwich e Brickmakers e The Brickmakers Sessions Norwich e Puppet Theatre e Dragons and Monsters

Monday 4th in Suffolk

Bury e Theatre Royal e Jack And The Beanstalk e On til 10th Ipswich e Sir John Mills Theatre e Holy Mackerel e On til 6th

Tuesday 5th in Essex

Colchester e The Bull e The Big Jam Night

Tuesday 5th in Norfolk

Great Yarmouth e St George’s Theatre e Cinderella Norwich e Norwich Arts Centre e Intellectual Hooligans Norwich e Theatre Royal e I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e Quiz Night

Tuesday 5th in Suffolk

Ipswich e New Wolsey Studio e Justin & The Argonauts Ipswich e New Wolsey Theatre e The Sword in the Stone e til 30th

Wednesday 6th in Essex

Colchester e Mercury Theatre e Aladdin e On til 10th Colchester e The Bull e Open Mic Night

Wednesday 6th in Norfolk

Norwich e Brickmakers e Acoustic Open Mic Norwich e Gate House e Irish Folk Norwich e Theatre Royal e Snow White e On til 17th Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e New Music Night

Wednesday 6th in Suffolk

Bildeston e Kings Head e Open Mic/Buskin’ Night Bungay e Fisher Theatre e Open Mic Night e £3 Bury e Theatre Royal e Jack And The Beanstalk e On til 10th Ipswich e The County of Suffolk e Harmonix Karaoke

Thursday 7th in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Arts Theatre e Cinderella e On til 17th Cambridge e Corn Exchange e Horrible Christmas e On til 9th Cambridge e Portland Arms e Bright Club

Thursday 7th in Essex

Colchester e Headgate Theatre e Frankenstein the Panto e til 9th Colchester e The Bull e Acoustic Bull Southend e Cliffs Pavilion Theatre e Cinderella e On til 10th Southend e Maritime Room e The Jazz Mix presFat Freddie’s Cat

Thursday 7th in Norfolk

Great Yarmouth e St George’s Theatre e Cinderella e On til 10th Norwich e Norwich Arts Centre e Matt Mackman Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e Open Mic

Thursday 7th in Suffolk

Bury e Theatre Royal e Jack And The Beanstalk e On til 10th Ipswich e Black Horse e Rampage Thursdayz Ipswich e The Music Room e DJ Lexus - Student Night Ipswich A14 e Orwell Crossing e Music at Olives Bar

Friday 8th in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Cambridge Junction e Take a Step Cambridge e Corn Exchange e Horrible Christmas e On til 9th Cambridge e Golden Hind e Open Stage: Dark Green Tea Cambridge e Portland Arms e Quadrophenia night

Friday 8th in Essex

Billericay e New Crawdaddy Club e Jerimiah Marques Colchester e Colchester Arts Centre e Cry: Live! e £5 Colchester e The Bull e Pop Gun Manningtree e Mistley Village Hall e Foxyrock Southend e Palace Theatre e The Adult Panto

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Friday 8th in Suffolk

Aldeburgh e Jubilee Hall e Friday Lunchtime Concerts Bury e Constitutional Club e Adrian Nation e £10 Felixstowe e Trimley Sports & Social Club e Haiden Grigor Ipswich e Black Horse e Karaoke Ipswich e Gardeners Arms e Stiff in the Morning Ipswich e Suffolk Punch e Back in the Day Ipswich e The County of Suffolk e Harmonix Karaoke Ipswich e The Mulberry Tree e Camelfoot Raiders Ipswich A14 e Orwell Crossing e Tim Staff Lowestoft e Seagull Theatre e Open Mic Night Stoke by Nayland e Fleece Jazz e Fletch’s Brew e £18 Stowmarket e Pickerel e Mind The Gap Sudbury e Prince of Wales e Words & Music

Saturday 9th in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Cambridge Junction e Take a Step Cambridge e Portland Arms e Wonk Unit Peterborough e Brewery Tap e Saturday Night Groove Peterborough e Charters e Retrolux

Saturday 9th in Essex

Billericay e Blues at the Farm e Blues Situation e £7 Chelmsford e Civic Theatre e Lets Hang On Colchester e Mercury Theatre e Aladdin e On til 10th Colchester e The Bull e Steal Southend e Cliffs Pavilion Theatre e Cinderella e On til 10th

Saturday 9th in Norfolk

Banham e Community Centre e 60’s Dance e £6 Norwich e B2 e Khtonia + Support Norwich e Brickmakers e The Glamtastics Norwich e Gate House e Rockin Johnny Norwich e Norwich Arts Centre e Addison’s Uncle Norwich e Playhouse e Spectrum Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e The Rob Holmes Band

Saturday 9th in Suffolk

Bury e Theatre Royal e Jack And The Beanstalk e On til 10th Felixstowe e Trimley S&S Club e Quiz & Curry Night Ipswich e Black Horse e Beautiful Dangerous Ipswich e Corn Exchange e Trianon Music Group Ipswich e Gardeners Arms e Counterfeit Ipswich e The Mulberry Tree e Colourblind Hedgehogs Ipswich e The Music Room e Forever Jackson e £10 Mellis e Railway Tavern e Karaoke Night Stowmarket e Pickerel e Menumitno Sudbury e Bay Horse e Hot Tramp Sudbury e Prince of Wales e Outlaws

Sunday 10th in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Arts Theatre e Cinderella e On til 17th

Sunday 10th in Essex

Chelmsford e Civic Theatre e Forever in Blue Jeans Colchester e Headgate Theatre e Virtuoso Guitar with Declan Zapala Marks Tey e Colchester Jazz Club e Hugh Rainey’s Jazz Band

Sunday 10th in Norfolk

Norwich e Brickmakers e Lee Vasey Big Band Norwich e Brickmakers e Karaoke Norwich e Theatre Royal e Snow White e On til 17th Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e Live Music TBC

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Steve previews theatre and comedy on BBC Radio Suffolk at 5.50pm every Wednesday and presents the Wednesday Breakfast Show on ICR 105.7 FM. He also crochets coasters for disabled sailors...

It’s New Year so that can mean only one thing: yes as predictable as Foz saying “I’ll just pop to the loo” as you get to the bar, it’s time for that traditional January pastime of the ‘look-back’ over the passing year. As usual these are presented in the order in which I saw them rather than in order of preference so without any undue delay, prevarication or procrastination, avoiding hindrance, impediment or obstruction, curtailing any attempts at moratorium, adjournment or postponement and simply getting straight down to it without dawdling, lingering or... hang on, Foz is at the bar. Here’s a list. I’ll start in the same place I did last year which is Jerwood Dance House, home to DanceEast. Butterflies was 2014’s Christmas show but deadlines are such that I saw it too late to include in last year’s list. The life cycle of a butterfly was beautifully outlined by this physical painting of a performance. An interactive delight, it evoked peace and joy in equal measure and it’s theatric effect was such that it ought to be available on prescription from the NHS. The Only Way is Downton: By the time you read this Downton Abbey will probably be TV history and that

presumably signals the end for Luke Kempner’s one-man show. That’s a shame as the pace, timing and exquisite manifestation of character through stance and gesture, when combined with a ludicrous and funny script, brought a life to this show which lifted it way beyond being simply a fan’s indulgence . Easily the funniest thing I saw all year. The Crucible: Arthur Miller’s centenary was well celebrated in 2015 and the New Wolsey Young Company under the direction of Rob Salmon definitely did their bit with this traditional telling of Miller’s most celebrated play. An absolutely super production which was better than almost all of the professional productions I saw last year. A Day in the Death of Joe Egg: Peter Nichol’s play is now nearly fifty years old yet this powerful, distressing and alarmingly funny production by the Gallery Players impressively grappled with the questions it still poses with a tender force which would have done credit to any professional, full-time company. I’d have gone back to see this the very next night and didn’t enjoy anything more all year. Nursing Lives: If you have never been to a masked theatre performance then make sure you catch a Vamos Theatre performance next time they

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Clockwise from top left: Now Listen To Me Very Closely, Bromance & Butterflies

pass your way. This production was an expectation confounding, enchanting and joyous celebration of memory and the importance places can play in the landscape of an individual’s life.

riot during which members of the audience got to say and do just that – as well as deliver other classic lines. At times it resembled a team building session delivered by Henry Rollins.

Bromance: This witty, circus skills celebration of all things blokey opened the Pulse Festival to universal acclaim. The acrobatics and gymnastic skills were excellent but it was a spinning metal wheel which really gave this show it’s edge.

Parkway Dreams: A docu-drama musical about the planning of Peterborough new-town? Sounds woeful doesn’t it? But Parkway Dreams was a peculiarly original and expectation-confounding show which impressively demonstrated the drama, humour and tragedy contained within the most mundane of stories.

Now Listen To Me Very Closely: Who wouldn’t want to say “I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle” and then fire a NERF gun into someone’s face. Bootwork’s unsophisticated, lo-fi celebration of one man’s obsession with the Terminator films was an immersive

Right, that’s last year done. Time to settle down with the last of the Christmas chocs and the 2016 Spring Programme brochures. Happy New Year.

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Bungay e Fisher Theatre e It’s a Wonderful Life e £10 Bury e The Apex e Fat Cat Comedy Club e £12 Bury e Theatre Royal e Jack And The Beanstalk Ipswich e Corn Exchange e Bay City Rollers Ipswich e Isaacs e Nik Lowe Ipswich e New Wolsey Theatre e The Sword in the Stone e til 30th Ipswich e Suffolk Punch e Haiden Grigor Band Kesgrave e Social Club e Foxyrock Lowestoft e Seagull Theatre e New Words, Fresh Voices Mellis e Railway Tavern e Dark Green Door Stowmarket e The Mill Bar & Grill e Apryl’s Kiss Karaoke Sudbury e Bay Horse e The Rev Kenny, John, Sean & Crissy Lee

Monday 11th in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Arts Theatre e Cinderella e On til 17th

Monday 11th in Essex

Southend e Cliffs Pavilion Theatre e Let It Be e On til 16th

Monday 11th in Norfolk

Norwich e Brickmakers e The Brickmakers Sessions Norwich e Maddermarket e Monthly Jam Session

Monday 11th in Suffolk

Woodbridge e Sorrel Horse e Honey and The Bear

Tuesday 12th in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Arts Theatre e Cinderella e On til 17th

Tuesday 12th in Norfolk

Hunstanton e Princess Theatre e Jane Eyre e £12.50 Norwich e Maddermarket e Art of the Trio Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e Quiz Night

Tuesday 12th in Suffolk

Ipswich e Grinning Rat e Open Mic Woodbridge e Seckford Theatre e Holy Mackerel e On til 23rd

Colchester e The Bull e Open Mic Night Southend e Palace Theatre e Sleeping Beauty e On til 17th

Wednesday 13th in Norfolk

Norwich e Brickmakers e Acoustic Open Mic Norwich e Gate House e Irish Folk Norwich e Norwich Arts Centre e Sleaford Mods Norwich e Playhouse e Mark Watson: Tour Preview Norwich e The Waterfront e Alien Ant Farm + support Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e New Music Night

Wednesday 13th in Suffolk

Bildeston e Kings Head e Open Mic/Buskin’ Night Ipswich e The County of Suffolk e Harmonix Karaoke

Thursday 14th in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Hidden Rooms e Hannes Riepler Quartet

Thursday 14th in Essex

Southend e Cliffs Pavilion Theatre e Let It Be e On til 16th Southend e Palace Theatre e Sleeping Beauty

Thursday 14th in Norfolk

Norwich e Brickmakers e The Black Diamond Duo Norwich e Playhouse e Mark Watson: Tour Preview Norwich e The Owl Sanctuary e Greg Barnett, Bobby Barnett, Dan Allen & Simon Wells Norwich e The Waterfront e Cancer Bats Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e Open Mic

Thursday 14th in Suffolk

Bures e Eight Bells e Acoustic Open Mic e Free Bury e The Apex e Katherine Ryan - Kathbum e £18.50 Ipswich e Black Horse e Rampage Thursdayz Ipswich e Grinning Rat e Webby’s Jam Ipswich e New Wolsey Theatre e The Sword in the Stone e til 30th Ipswich e The Music Room e Student Night e Free Ipswich A14 e Orwell Crossing e Music at Olives Bar

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This may sound like a question from a coldcase review but can you remember what were you doing from the early nineteen seventies until the mid nineteen eighties? Doubtless you’ll have forgotten more of that period than you can remember but if you are of sufficient vintage to have attended any of the Barsham or Albion Fairs that took place across Norfolk and Suffolk during that period then it’s unlikely that you’ll have forgotten the experience.

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Fairs to form an oral archive of this piece of unique East Anglian social history. It doesn’t matter how small your memory, they would like to hear from you. The more people who offer up their memories, the more likely it is that the grant will be secured and this small but beautiful part of our heritage will not be lost in the mist of history. If you would like to contribute (it’s costless and pain-free) then please send an email to: fairsarchive@gmail.com.

The Fairs were Whether or not you attended, take a look an East Anglian at the Fairs Archive anomaly; a website. It pool of leftfield, has a history anarchic fun of how the and diversity Fairs came in a period into being, as which started well as some in austerity fantastically and ended evocative in stifling photographs conformity. to further Rougham, prompt the Bergholt, memory. The Fairs Arc Lyng, hive Exhibiti on yurt (as seen at H Barsham The power arlequin Fayr e 2015) and a contained in handful of other eye-witness oral villages were the scenes of the Fairs which, history is just looking back on them now, appear to be being realised as the capacity to make the bridge between the 60s flower-power relatively cheap, large scale recordings generation and the road-protesters of the becomes widely available. If they are 1990s - and seem in many ways to have successful with the grant application, formed the blueprint for what festivals then in addition to finance, the Fairs have become in the 21st century. Archive will receive training in how best to make the recordings and, even more If you do have fond memories of one or importantly, how to archive them so that more of the 44 Fairs held between 1972 – they are accessible for future generations. 1986, then those memories are in demand. The opportunity to contribute to the The good folk who run the Fairs Archive preservation of anything for the benefit of - www.fairsarchive.org.uk - and who are those who follow behind us should not be to be found at various events around the lightly turned away from, so if one of the region with their travelling exhibition, are Fairs played some part in your past why not applying for a Heritage Lottery Grant in drop them an e mail; they will appreciate order to record people’s memories of the it.

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For the second column in a row, I’ll same venue. It is the Fleece in Boxford, begin by writing about my first meeting where Chris and This Boy Wonders with an artist and close with what reside. There is plenty of love in the they’re up to now. It is November room for the band, who treat us to a 2009 and the amazing Prego (later triumphant set. Just over a year later Union Sound Set) are headlining a the band plays Liverpool’s legendary battle of the bands competition at the Cavern Club, followed by the Reading Regent Theatre in Ipswich. I have gone and Leeds festivals. All of this ahead along to catch up with them having of the release of a self titled album witnessed them perform a perfect in 2012, which is another significant live set on our programme just a few step forward following a series of days earlier. I am also there to see impressive EP’s. But by early 2014, This the 4 acts competing on the night. 2 Boy Wonders are no more. I am sad, have already caught my ear in recent for now. But what comes next is Chris’s weeks. Metal best work to date. band Echoes Fall Playing on a rooftop are threatening, Now based in intimidating, angry terrace to 60 people sitting Brighton, Chris and sweaty. This has been writing on the floor overlooking Boy Wonders are and performing the Chicago skyline, that delicate, soulful, under the name bluesey and very Oktoba. His debut was pretty special. promising. Surely solo album, Smoke one of those two Signals, which was acts will leave with whatever the prize released in October, is as magical as is on the night. Alas, neither triumph. the best images and tastes that the What do I know? month itself can conjure up. The leaves change colour, fall to the ground, and I briefly spot the frontman of the latter make a beautiful, crunchy blanket band, Chris Athorne, among the to walk across. Roast dinners, Red crowd and we talk face to face for wines and roaring fires. It is hard to the first time. I thank him for sending pick a standout song from an album his music our way. He thanks me for of standout songs, but the title track getting the songs on the radio and and opener is simply wonderful. You tells me about the band’s next gig to me is also exceptional (but then which I promise to be at. I go along it all is, I’m just picking out personal and less than 4 months later, we are favourites here). Tongue Tied and Wind on the road with our live show at the Fire Water Stone complete my top 4.

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The former of those has an excellent video (captured by Dean Waite) to go with it, as it is the first single from the record, which was recorded with Tim Bidwell at The Clockwork Owl studio in Brighton’s Kemptown community. There is a fine line between such beauty and tragedy. Chris lost his biggest fan and his father, Nick, at the beginning of the year. I enjoyed the privilege of a conversation with Nick at the aforementioned This Boy Wonders album launch. I’ll never forget how he rightly spoke with such pride about his son’s work. Chris says: ‘With the little bit of money that he left me I decided I would put it towards making this album the way that I wanted to make it.’ Dad would have been, and will be, immensely proud Chris. ‘One of the great things about working with Tim, was that he has a list of incredible musicians that he’s able to call upon to work on the tracks. So I ended up working with some of the best musicians that I have ever had the joy of working with. I feel very lucky to have met and recorded with the artists that I did for Smoke Signals, and no doubt we’ll all be working together again on the next one.’

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As well as working great musicians, Oktoba has been gigging in some great locations, namely Chicago and New York. ‘I was visiting Chicago and New York on holiday and felt that I would try to take the opportunity to get some shows whilst I was there. It’s been a dream of mine to play for audiences in America and I was determined to make that a reality. One of the Chicago shows was for Sofar Sounds, a world wide music community that puts on shows at secret location and venues around different cities. I have already been part of some of their shows in England and they really support returning Sofar artists. That was a really amazing experience. Playing on a rooftop terrace to 60 people sitting on the floor overlooking the Chicago skyline, that was pretty Oktoba special. In New York I played at The Rockwood Music Hall. A really well known venue to the city that has seen so many incredible acts pass through it.’ Well, it has now seen another one. For classic Americana and alternative folk, Oktoba and Smoke Signals is essential listening. Graeme

www.grapevinelive.co.uk Friday 15th in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Arts Theatre e Cinderella e On til 17th Cambridge e Cambridge Junction e Noise in the Hood Cambridge e Corn Exchange e Daughter e £20 Cambridge e Golden Hind e Showcase Cambridge e Portland Arms e Beating The Blues

Friday 15th in Essex

Billericay e New Crawdaddy Club e 24 Pesos Chelmsford e Civic Theatre e Are you Experienced? Colchester e Arts Centre e Creedence Clearwater Review e £13 Colchester e The Bull e Dirty Wafer Hockley e Hockley Community Centre e U2-2 e £11 Southend e Cliffs Pavilion e Classic Rock Show Southend e Cliffs Pavilion e Let It Be e On til 16th

Friday 15th in Norfolk

Kings Lynn e Corn Exchange e Jim Davidson Norwich e B2 e The Reckless, The Brave + Support Norwich e Brickmakers e Blind Tiger + Support Norwich e Playhouse e Mark Watson: Tour Preview Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e The Cream Horns

Friday 15th in Suffolk

Aldeburgh e Jubilee Hall e Quartetto Lyskamm Boxford e Boxford Fleece Hotel e Acoustic Folk Night Bungay e Fisher Theatre e Crazy Glue e £12 Felixstowe e Trimley Sports & Social Club e Steve Forward Ipswich e Black Horse e Karaoke Ipswich e Gardeners Arms e Shattered? Ipswich e Grinning Rat e Shoot The Glass Ipswich e The County of Suffolk e Harmonix Karaoke Ipswich e The Mulberry Tree e Friction Ipswich e Venue 77 e Soul Kitchen e £10 Ipswich A14 e Orwell Crossing e Brain Ray

Stoke by Nayland e Fleece Jazz e Theo Travis Quartet Stowmarket e Pickerel e Kiss Karaoke Sudbury e Prince of Wales e Lone Crows Sudbury e Quay Theatre e Jack Lawson & Neof Carroll

Saturday 16th in Cambridgshire

Cambridge e Portland Arms e Obscene Entity + support Peterborough e Brewery Tap e Saturday Night Groove

Saturday 16th in Essex

Billericay e Blues at the Farm e Rollo Markee & The Tailshakers Chelmsford e Cramphorn Theatre e Comedy Club 4 Kids Colchester e Charter Hall e Matt Howard Southend e Maritime Room e The Ultimate Motown Night Southend e Palace Theatre e Sleeping Beauty

Saturday 16th in Norfolk

Norwich e Brickmakers e The Claire Barker Band Norwich e Gate House e Vic Salter Norwich e Norwich Arts Centre e Haiku Salut + support Norwich e Norwich OPEN e Channel One Norwich e Playhouse e Mark Watson: Tour Preview Norwich e Theatre Royal e Snow White e On til 17th Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e Stealer

Saturday 16th in Suffolk

Bury e Theatre Royal e Showstopper! Improvised Musical Elmswell e Railway Tavern e Renegade Twelve Ipswich e Black Horse e Shameful Behaviour Ipswich e Gardeners Arms e AC/Dizzy Ipswich e Grinning Rat e Manic Blackout Ipswich e New Wolsey Theatre e The Sword in the Stone e til 30th Ipswich e Newton Rd Conservative Club e Terry Lee Travis Ipswich e Suffolk Punch e The Flashbacks Band Ipswich e The Mulberry Tree e Medicine Hat Lowestoft e Marina Theatre e The Musicals Lowestoft e Seagull Theatre e Crazy Glue Snape e Jerwood Kiln Studio e Open Session: Juliet Fraser Stowmarket e Pickerel e The Rock Hudsons Sudbury e Bay Horse e Spiderz Sudbury e Prince of Wales e Contraband Sudbury e Quay Theatre e Purple Zeppelin Woodbridge e Seckford Theatre e Holy Mackerel e On til 23rd

Sunday 17th in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Cambridge Junction e Alien Ant Farm e £18.50 Cambridge e Cambridge Junction e Tom Korni Cambridge e Portland Arms e Open Decks

Sunday 17th in Essex

Chelmsford e Civic Theatre e Beyond the Barricade Marks Tey e Colchester Jazz e The East Coast Wanderers Southend e Cliffs Pavilion e The Sensational 60s Experience

Sunday 17th in Norfolk

Norwich e Brickmakers e Lee Vasey Big Band Norwich e Brickmakers e Karaoke Norwich e Norwich Arts Centre e Matt Mackman e On til 20th Feb Norwich e The Bicycle Shop e Honey and The Bear Norwich e The LCR e The Temperance Movement Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e Rockabilly Sunday Jam

Sunday 17th in Suffolk

Bury e Theatre Royal e The Tommy Cooper Show Halesworth e New Cut e Kingfisher Sinfonietta Ipswich e Briarbank Brewery e Sunday Jazz Ipswich e Isaacs e Adam Double Ipswich e Jazz Club e Scott Hamilton Quartet Ipswich e Suffolk Punch e The Last Gunfighter Ipswich e The Mulberry Tree e Mulberry Folk Session Stowmarket e The Mill Bar & Grill e Apryl’s Kiss Karaoke Sudbury e Bay Horse e The Disraeli Band

Monday 18th in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Cambridge Junction e Lindi Ortega

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Colchester e Colchester Arts Centre e Steve Tilson

Monday 18th in Norfolk

Norwich e Brickmakers e The Brickmakers Sessions Norwich e Playhouse e Dave Gorman Norwich e The Owl Sanctuary e Turnover + support

Monday 18th in Suffolk

Bury e Theatre Royal e The Edmund Octet e £8.50 Ipswich e New Wolsey Theatre e The Sword in the Stone e til 30th

Tuesday 19th in Essex

Colchester e Colchester Arts Centre e Eliza And The Bear Colchester e Headgate e A Streetcar Named Desire e On til 23rd

Tuesday 19th in Norfolk

Norwich e Brickmakers e Access to Music Showcase Norwich e Norwich Arts Centre e Lindi Ortega + support Norwich e Playhouse e Dave Gorman Norwich e The Waterfront e Baaba Maal Norwich e Theatre Royal e Cirque de Glace e On til 23rd Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e Quiz Night

Wednesday 20th in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Cambridge Junction e The Rails e £13

Wednesday 20th in Essex

Colchester e Headgate e A Streetcar Named Desire Colchester e Mercury Theatre e Sister Act e On til 30th Southend e Cliffs Pavilion e Vampires Rock: Ghost Train Wix e The Waggon e Blackwater Band

Wednesday 20th in Norfolk

Great Yarmouth e St George’s Theatre e Snow Queen Norwich e Brickmakers e Acoustic Open Mic Norwich e Gate House e Irish Folk Norwich e Playhouse e Dave Gorman Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e New Music Night

Wednesday 20th in Suffolk

Bildeston e Kings Head e Open Mic/Buskin’ Night Ipswich e Grinning Rat e Blues Jam Ipswich e The County of Suffolk e Harmonix Karaoke Stowmarket e John Peel Centre e John Wheeler Woodbridge e Seckford Theatre e Holy Mackerel e On til 23rd

Thursday 21st in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Portland Arms e John Wheeler

Thursday 21st in Essex

Colchester e Colchester Arts Centre e Noise In The Hood Colchester e The Bull e 33 RPM Southend e Cliffs Pavilion Theatre e Roy Chubby Brown Southend e Palace Theatre e Complete Madness

Thursday 21st in Norfolk

Kings Lynn e Corn Exchange e Comedy Club Norwich e B2 e The Everlaine + Never Hill + support Norwich e Brickmakers e Cruiser Norwich e The Waterfront Studio e Eliza and the Bear Norwich e Theatre Royal e Cirque de Glace e On til 23rd Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e Open Mic

Thursday 21st in Suffolk

Bungay e Fisher Theatre e There is Always a Chance! Bury e The Apex e Oysters 3 e £17.50 Bury e Theatre Royal e Celebrating Hoagy e £16.50 Ipswich e Black Horse e Rampage Thursdayz Ipswich e New Wolsey Theatre e The Sword in the Stone e til 30th Ipswich e The Music Room e Student Night Ipswich A14 e Orwell Crossing e Music at Olives Bar Woodbridge e Seckford Theatre e Holy Mackerel e On til 23rd

Friday 22nd in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Junction e Tiff Stevenson: Made Man

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Conductor, musical director, accompanist, organist - is there no end to David’s musical talents? Members of Sudbury Choral Society, the singers of vocal groups Musicology and The Accidentals as well as the good parishioners of various Suffolk churches would argue that there most certainly is. Undaunted, David enjoys all of the above and more away from the day job at BBC Radio Suffolk.

I’ve never been a fan of the new which sold out weeks ago. Incidentally, year celebrations - it feels a bit of an I was told recently that the Saffron Hall arbitrary feast to me and there’s only so has almost been too successful, as it’s much Jools Hootenanny one can take regularly booked out by top London (or Viennese waltzes for that matter). based classical recording producers However, it’s a good time to take stock, and record labels in between the to focus on the year that’s been and regular live events. Increasingly, I will look ahead to what may be to come. have to look further ahead in this Happily when doing this, it seems to me column, especially that the world of at events like the classical music is Snape Proms where in especially good tickets for the top health. The past events can sell out few years have within days of being seen at least three made available. new world class concert halls built So, with all of this in our patch - the interest, has the Apex in Bury, the “elitist” tag that Hoffmann building so often seems at Snape and most to be attached recently the Saffron to classical Hall in Saffron music started to s s e rg Walden. All three disappear? To u B n ti Soloist Mar regularly play host to an extent, yes, high class classical although it still concerts and seems to be there in some people’s crucially - these concerts regularly sell minds ... I suspect that may diminish if out. For example, I could tell you about they tried the live concert experience Joshua Bell and the Academy of St for themselves. Sometimes, the venues Martin in the Fields playing Schumann, themselves don’t help (we’ve probably Beethoven and Brahms at the Saffron all experienced an over-fussy usher at Hall this month, but you’d be looking some point), although recent outreach in vain for tickets. The same applies to work carried out by both orchestras Nicola Benedetti’s appearance with and festival organisers has to be hugely the CBSO at the end of this month beneficial. Remember the marvellous

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The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields also made mention of the local scene orchestral concert in an Ipswich multiwould be most welcome. storey car park as part of the 2015 Aldeburgh Festival? By and large, the I’ll finish by taking my own advice media is supportive and will give good and telling you about an event in coverage of local events, although I February which is still detect a slight already selling fast. unease at the radio The strings of the station I work for So, with all of this aforementioned when it comes to interest, has the “elitist” Academy of St playing a complete piece of classical tag that so often seems to Martin in the Fields present an eclectic music. In fact, on be attached to classical mix of Bach, Elgar, your BBC local Tchaikovsky and radio station, you music started to Britten on the 17th can hear specialist disappear? February at the programmes Apex. It’s just one featuring jazz, of a handful of good looking concerts country, rock’n’roll and (bizarrely) taking place in Bury that month, so a Northern Soul, but not a note of trip online to find out more is a must. In classical. A regional arts programme fact, during these dark winter nights, which could be widened to include our rich theatrical scene would be why not spend a bit of time researching and planning a few concert outings? wonderful, but I suspect the money Sounds like the perfect new year may not be there for that. Nonetheless, resolution to me. an hour or two of classical music which

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Friday 22nd in Essex

Chelmsford e Civic Theatre e Swinging at the Cotton Club Colchester e Colchester Arts Centre e Whole Lotta Led Colchester e Headgate Theatre e A Streetcar Named Desire e til 23rd Colchester e The Bull e Fleeced Manningtree e Mistley Village Hall e Foxyr Southend e Cliffs Pavilion e Ben Portsmouth Southend e Maritime Room e Fanny Galore’s Big Night Out Southend e Palace Theatre e Back to Bacharach

Friday 22nd in Norfolk

Norwich e Brickmakers e Night Train Norwich e Gate House e Vic Salter Norwich e Maddermarket e The Star Spangled Girl e On til 30th Norwich e Playhouse e Hal Cruttenden Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e Spiked

Friday 22nd in Suffolk

Norwich e The Owl Sanctuary e Voodoo Glow Skulls + spt Aldeburgh e Jubilee Hall e Friday Lunchtime Concerts Botesdale e Greyhound e The Knights of Stanley Bungay e Fisher Theatre e Paul Daniels & Debbie McGee Bury e The Apex e The Mayor’s Charity Concert e £12 Bury e Theatre Royal e Stephen K Amos Felixstowe e Trimley Sports & Social Club e Slide Ipswich e Black Horse e Karaoke Ipswich e Gardeners Arms e Guns or Roses e £3 Ipswich e Grinning Rat e The Flashbacks Ipswich e Jerwood Dancehouse e The Little Match Girl Ipswich e New Wolsey Theatre e The Sword in the Stone e til 30th Ipswich e Pump & Grind e Gully Ipswich e Selkirk Inn e Louis Two Tone Ipswich e Suffolk Punch e Colourblind Hedgehogs Ipswich e The County of Suffolk e Harmonix Karaoke Ipswich e The Mulberry Tree e Kickin’ Up Dust Ipswich A14 e Orwell Crossing e Pedro Lowestoft e Marina Theatre e Dick Whittington e On til 22nd Stoke by Nayland e Fleece Jazz e Alex Merritt Quartet Stowmarket e Pickerel e TBA Sudbury e Prince of Wales e Smith & Jones Woodbridge e Seckford Theatre e Holy Mackerel e On til 23rd

Saturday 23rd in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Corn Exchange e The Circus of Horrors Peterborough e Brewery Tap e Saturday Night Groove

Saturday 23rd in Essex

Billericay e Blues at the Farm e Grapevine Blues e £7 Colchester e Colchester Arts Centre e Owen Jones Colchester e Mercury Theatre e Sister Act e On til 30th Colchester e The Bull e The Rising Southend e Cliffs Pavilion e The Johann Strauss Gala Southend e Palace Theatre e Dr Feelgood Wix e The Waggon e Legend

Saturday 23rd in Norfolk

Norwich e B2 e Rock Night Norwich e Brickmakers e Guns or Roses + Eva Black Norwich e Norwich Arts Centre e Acoustic Showcase Norwich e Norwich Arts Centre e Broken Brass Ensemble Norwich e Playhouse e Miss Nightengale: The Musical Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e Egypt

Saturday 23rd in Suffolk

Bury e Theatre Royal e Broadway and Beyond e £20.50 Ipswich e Black Horse e Menumiteno Ipswich e California Club e Terry Lee Travis Ipswich e Gardeners Arms e Camelfoot Raiders Ipswich e Grinning Rat e The Estimators e £5 Ipswich e Jerwood Dancehouse e The Little Match Girl Ipswich e New Wolsey Theatre e The Sword in the Stone e til 30th

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Sunday 24th in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Cambridge Junction e Vieux Farka Toure

Sunday 24th in Essex

Chelmsford e Civic Theatre e That’ll Be The Day Colchester e Mercury Theatre e Sister Act e On til 30th Marks Tey e Colchester Jazz e Goff Dubber Dixieland Exp. Southend e Cliffs Pavilion Theatre e The Russian State Ballet & Orchestra of Siberia presents Snow Maiden Southend e Palace Theatre e Freddy Kempf (Piano)

Sunday 24th in Norfolk

Kings Lynn e Corn Exchange e The Classic Rock Show Norwich e Brickmakers e Lee Vasey Big Band & Karaoke Norwich e Playhouse e Miss Nightengale: The Musical Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e Live Music TBC

Sunday 24th in Suffolk

Bungay e Fisher Theatre e The Taming of the Shrew Bury e The Apex e It Don’t Mean A Thing Ipswich e Dove Street Inn e Back Porch Ipswich e Isaacs e The Reason Kesgrave e Social Club e Foxyrock Lowestoft e The Seagull Theatre e Martin Carthy Stowmarket e John Peel Centre e Classic Album Sunday Stowmarket e The Mill Bar & Grill e Apryl’s Kiss Karaoke Sudbury e Bay Horse e Remedy Woodbridge e The Froize e Dan Walsh

Monday 25th in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Arts Theatre e The 39 Steps e On til 30th

Monday 25th in Essex

Colchester e Colchester Arts Centre e Chris Wood Colchester e Mercury Theatre e Sister Act e On til 30th

Monday 25th in Norfolk

Norwich e Brickmakers e The Brickmakers Sessions Norwich e Maddermarket e The Star Spangled Girle On til 30th Norwich e Norwich Arts Centre e Matt Mackman e On til 20th Feb Norwich e Norwich Arts Centre e Kent Duchaine e £12 Norwich e The Bicycle Shop e Will Robert Norwich e The LCR e The Kooks Norwich e Theatre Royal e Sunset Boulevard e On til 30th

Monday 25th in Suffolk

Ipswich e The Ipswich Regent e The Classic Rock Show Lowestoft e Marina Theatre e Dick Whittington e On til 31st Woodbridge e Shottisham Sorrel Horse e Carpe Diem

Tuesday 26th in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Cambridge Junction e BTEC Showcase Peterborough e Key Theatre e Holy Mackerel e On til 30th

Tuesday 26th in Essex

Chelmsford e Old Court Theatre e The Vagina Monologues Southend e Cliffs Pavilion Theatre e The Last Tango e On til 30th

Tuesday 26th in Norfolk

Norwich e Brickmakers e Killing Floor Norwich e Norwich Arts Centre e Vieux Farka Norwich e The Owl Sanctuary e Terror + support Norwich e The Waterfront e Jeremy Loops Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e Quiz Night

Tuesday 26th in Suffolk

Ipswich e Grinning Rat e Open Mic

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PADDY STRATTON AND FRIENDS – FINALLY Paddy is a familiar figure on the East Anglia music scene both as a solo artist and as a member of the trio Coyote Wrecks. He lives in the village of Botesdale not far from Diss and is well known on the national scene for his work as a songwriter for The Levellers. The songs on this eagerly awaited album began life in 2010 as demos. Paddy met producer Paul Fitzgerald in 2014 and they set about completing the material and indeed recording it at Paul’s studio near Bungay. This CD features Jools Holland sideman Mark Flanagan on guitars, dobros and other stringed instruments. Tracks: Other Side Of Town/Lay Down The Lamp/Even If I Try/ Please Don’t Make Me/Save It For St Louis/In A Bar/One More Dance/If You Touch Her/You Can’t Show Me/Some People Musicians: Paddy Stratton, Mark Flangan, Jon Mills, George Fothergill, Rory Fitzgerald, Paul Fitzgerald, Lily Buck, Maisie Buck and Leo Alterelli

JAZZ AT THE MOVIES – KISS KISS BANG BANG Fronted by acclaimed Saffron Walden-based singer singer and featuring the Chris Ingham Quartet, Jazz at the Movies performs evocative songs and soundtrack themes from classic films including The Aristocats, The Servant, From Russia With Love, Agatha, Let’s Make Love, The Pink Panther, The Ipcress File and many more. With material ranging from Bond to Bacharach, Dankworth to Disney, Porter to Pinter, Jazz At The Movies is an enchanting, entertaining show rich with anecdotes, sophistication and swing. This is their third CD release and is out on Downhome Records. Tracks: Prelude/Close Enough For Love/Pure Imagination/ Sooner Or Later/Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang/It Might Be You/The Summer Knows/Put The Blame On Mame/I’d Rather Have The Blues/Chovenda Na Roseira/More Than You Know/The Man That Got Away/When I Look In Your Eyes/South American Getaway/ Love Music Line-up: Joanna Eden, Mark Crooks, Chris Ingham, Rev. Andrew Brown and George Double

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BENJAMIN BLOOM – LAST MAN ON EARTH! Ipswich’s Benjamin Bloom is a singer, songwriter, front man, piano maestro, podcaster and session musician. He has released two EPs, a DVD, a live album and now his first full length studio album Last Man On Earth! Ben has played many gigs at many venues, shared the stage with Ed Sheeran, Focus, The Chevin, The Blow Monkeys and Space Ritual as well as playing Latitude Festival for BBC Introducing. This multi-talented entertainer also has a theatre show called Benjamin Bloom’s Last Man On Earth that features Hugo ‘Tregaurd’ Myatt of cult kids TV show Knightmare on a video screen and circus acts breathing fire and hanging from the ceiling. An audio show called The Benjamin Bloom Podcast drops every second Tuesday on iTunes. Tracks: Welcome Watchers/The Greatest Show On Earth/My Creation/Impossible/The Root Of All Evil/Chaos/Last man On Earth/Alter Ego/Parallel Universe/Tyrants Overtime/Chinese Whispers Musicians: Benjamin Bloom, Joel Kirta, Luca Minschetti, Jay Goodrich, Tiago Rosado, Andy Clarke and Stuart Sale.

Would you like the chance to have your CD featured in Music To Your Ears? Last month’s answers: 1. 4th Labyrinth 2. Hans Christian Andersen 3. Lee Brilleaux 4. Hiding in the Dark 5. The Murderers

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Here’s another quiz for you: 1. Which member of Back Porch also fronts Soul Kitchen? 2. What’s the title of Benjamin Bloom’s first full length album? 3. At which venue did Foz witness his favourite local gig of 2015? 4. Who’s the man behind The Only Way Is Downton? 5. Who writes and performs under the name Oktoba? Enter at www.grapevinelive.co.uk or send your answers on a postcard to the address on the inside cover. The two winners of this month’s quiz will get a CD from those featured in Music to Your Ears, so if you have a preference don’t forget to mark it on your entry.

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Wednesday 27th in Essex

Chelmsford e Old Court Theatre e The Vagina Monologues Colchester e The Bull e Open Mic Night Southend e Maritime e Tony Remy & The Stolen Clones Southend e Palace Theatre e Soul Explosion

Wednesday 27th in Norfolk

Norwich e Brickmakers e Acoustic Open Mic Norwich e Gate House e Irish Folk Norwich e Maddermarket e The Star Spangled Girl e On til 30th Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e Norfolk Blues Society

Wednesday 27th in Suffolk

Bildeston e Kings Head e Open Mic/Buskin’ Night Ipswich e New Wolsey Theatre e The Sword in the Stone e til 30th Ipswich e The County of Suffolk e Harmonix Karaoke Ipswich e The Ipswich Regent e Rebecca Ferguson Lowestoft e Marina Theatre e Dick Whittington e On til 31st

Thursday 28th in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Corn Exchange e Rebecca Ferguson e £37.50 Peterborough e Key Theatre e Holy Mackerel e On til 30th

Thursday 28th in Essex

Chelmsford e Old Court Theatre e The Vagina Monologues Colchester e The Bull e TBA Southend e Maritime Room e Comedy Curry Club Southend e Palace Theatre e Gary Delaney

Thursday 28th in Norfolk

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Thursday 28th in Suffolk

Bildeston e Kings Head e Charity Quiz Night e £3 Bury e The Apex e Britten Oboe Quartet e £18 Ipswich e Black Horse e Rampage Thursdayz Ipswich e Grinning Rat e Webby's Jam Ipswich e The Music Room e Student Night Ipswich A14 e Orwell Crossing e Music at Olives Bar

Friday 29th in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Cambridge Junction e Matthew E. White Cambridge e Cambridge Junction e Andy Zaltzman e £13 Cambridge e Golden Hind e Open Stage: Robin Gillian Cambridge e Portland Arms e Portland Comedy Club Peterborough e Key Theatre e Johnny Cash Story

Friday 29th in Essex

Billericay e New Crawdaddy Club e Chris King Robinson Band Braintree e Braintree Arts Theatre e Funhouse Comedy Chelmsford e Old Court Theatre e The Vagina Monologues Colchester e Mercury Theatre e Sister Act e On til 30th Colchester e The Bull e Double Barrel Hockley e Hockley Community Centre e The Mods & Rockers Southend e Cliffs Pavilion Theatre e The Last Tango e On til 30th Southend e Dixon Studio e Kieran Hodgson: Lance Southend e Maritime Room e The Old Soul Roadshow Southend e Palace Theatre e Stewart Lee

Friday 29th in Norfolk

Great Yarmouth e St. George’s Theatre e Music of the Night Norwich e Brickmakers e The Collective Norwich e Norwich Arts Centre e Kitty, Daisy & Lewis

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Friday 29th in Suffolk

Aldeburgh e Jubilee Hall e Friday Lunchtime Concerts: Trio Isimsiz Bungay e Fisher Theatre e The Jerry Lee Lewis Story Bury e The Apex e The Beat e £18 Felixstowe e Dolphin Hotel e Bits and Pieces Felixstowe e Trimley Sports & Social Club e The Flashbacks Halesworth e New Cut e Pangaea Ipswich e Black Horse e Karaoke Ipswich e Duke of York e Ouse Valley Singles Club Ipswich e Gardeners Arms e The Jam Project Ipswich e Jerwood Dancehouse e I Loved You and I Loved You Ipswich e Selkirk Inn e Adam Harrod Ipswich e The County of Suffolk e Harmonix Karaoke Ipswich e The Mulberry Tree e All Revved Up Ipswich A14 e Orwell Crossing e Merv & Maria Stoke by Nayland e Fleece Jazz e Derek Nash Acoustic Quartet Stowmarket e Pickerel e TBA Sudbury e Prince of Wales e Remedy

Saturday 30th in Cambridgeshire

Cambridge e Cambridge Junction e The Shahnameh Peterborough e Brewery Tap e Saturday Night Groove Peterborough e Charters e Blackout UK Peterborough e Key Theatre e Islands in the Stream Peterborough e The Cresset e Magical Moves

Saturday 30th in Essex

Billericay e Blues at the Farm e Giles Hedley & The Aviators Chelmsford e Civic Theatre e Halfway to Paradise Chelmsford e Cramphorn Theatre e His Way Chelmsford e Old Court Theatre e The Vagina Monologues Colchester e Mercury Theatre e Sister Act

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Surely jazz is the most accessible popular music that has ever endured for more than just a few years. Of course, there have been many great innovations and innovators across all aspects of music. Jazz enthusiasts are often seen as being narrow-minded purists but my experience has been that lovers of jazz almost always have great respect for many other musical forms. Most jazz fans love many types of music; the major reason they come back constantly to jazz is the improvisational element. I play with many jazz enthusiasts and most have other likes across the music spectrum. I am not a great reader of music and probably only an average amateur player on my alto, but like most of us who are not just listeners but players too, we can play almost anything in any key. Whether it is great playing or not is another matter, I like it regardless! Perhaps the main difference between jazz players and other musicians is that we can create our own music across almost any background chords, in any key or tempo... and without written charts! Every jazz player will be creating something fresh, original, challenging and hopefully tuneful and vibrant. Although, like all music enthusiasts, there is not just one genre that counts in our passions. I personally love chamber music, the more melodic sectors of opera and ballet, the large orchestras playing the great symphonies (Rachmaninoff can make me cry...) and I can even tolerate a little country and folk. Good pop is okay - but too little of it is both good and original.

I find the ultimate condemnation of the popular end of pop is that fans usually only talk about the great legends in the business such as the Stones, the Beatles and the Beach Boys. Few of those fans care about the here today, gone tomorrow music that you can hear on so many music stations that are almost indistinguishable from each other. Meanwhile, The UK Parliamentary Jazz Awards are now Britain’s premier awards for the jazz community and jazz fans in both Houses. Jazz Broadcaster of the Year Paul Barnes has worked as presenter and reporter for over 40 years, on Today, The World at One, Woman’s Hour, Sunday, Outlook (World Service), Jazz Notes and numerous other series and single programmes. Paul’s love for all music, but especially jazz, has never left him, and the breadth of his enthusiasm is reflected in what he plays on his BBC radio show ‘The Late Paul Barnes’ broadcast across the East of England and even further afield on the net.

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Saturday 30th in Norfolk

Kings Lynn e Corn Exchange e Let’s Twist Again Norwich e B2 e Kyrbgrinder + Nocturna + Synaptik + More Norwich e Brickmakers e The Floating Greyhounds + Gameplan Norwich e Gate House e Vic Salter Norwich e Maddermarket e The Star Spangled Girl e £12 Norwich e Norwich Arts Centre e Matt Mackman: Inner City Circus Norwich e Playhouse e Gary Delaney Norwich e Puppet Theatre e Kwaidan Norwich e The Owl Sanctuary e Peter & The Test Tube Babes + more Norwich e Theatre Royal e Sunset Boulevard Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e BSE:Basketcase

Saturday 30th in Suffolk

Bildeston e Kings Head e Georgette and the Distraction Bury e The Apex e Nearly Dan e £16 felixstowe e Dolphin Hotel e Karaoke with Boz Ipswich e Black Horse e Lucky No 7 Ipswich e Gardeners Arms e Walkway Ipswich e Grinning Rat e Soap Your Auntie Ipswich e New Wolsey Theatre e The Sword in the Stone Ipswich e PJ McGinty’s e The Knights of Stanley Ipswich e Selkirk Inn e Neville Aitkens Ipswich e The Mulberry Tree e Broadway Clash Kesgrave e Kesgrave Community Centre e Little Red Robin Hood Lowestoft e Marina Theatre e Dick Whittington & Pirate Adventure Lowestoft e The Seagull Theatre e The Mahatmas Mellis e Railway Tavern e Regency Gentlemen Snape e Britten Studio e Open Session: Solomon’s Knot: The Discovery of Bomarzo Stowmarket e Pickerel e TBA Sudbury e Bay Horse e Mr Spankey & The Hipthrusters Sudbury e Quay Theatre e The Churchfitters e £15

Sunday 31st in Cambridgeshire

Peterborough e The Cresset e Magical Moves

Sunday 31st in Essex

Chelmsford e Civic Theatre e Blake Clacton-on-Sea e West Cliff Theatre e Count Duckula Live Colchester e Mercury Theatre e Chinese New Year Gala Marks Tey e Colchester Jazz Club e Colin Kingswell’s Jazz Bandits Southend e Cliffs Pavilion Theatre e Singing For Life

Sunday 31st in Norfolk

Kings Lynn e Corn Exchange e Norfolk Symphony Orchestra Norwich e Brickmakers e Lee Vasey Big Band Norwich e Brickmakers e PP3 Norwich e Brickmakers e Karaoke Norwich e The Bicycle Shop e Jess Morgan + Bryde Norwich e Theatre Royal e Brendan Cole Norwich e United Reformed Church e Young Musicians’ Concert Norwich e Walnut Tree Shades e NEW!! Rockabilly Sunday Sheringham e Little Theatre e Jazz @ The Hub: Cyan Traces

Sunday 31st in Suffolk

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